Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-12-21
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HE elevator at Warren, Mimi, and 30
600 bushels Of wheat were DESTROYED by
FIRE the other night. Loss, $4,000
1T is reported in Duluth, MInu., that z. l..
Sawyer, secretary of the Duluth Roller
Mill Company, has disappeared with over
5000 OF the company's money.
The Elkhart lind paper pail and Excel.
sior starch mills were destroyed by fire
the other day. Loss, $4,000
WHILE crossing the Missouri rivertwenty
miles below Bismarck, D. T., the other
night, a family consisting of Charles W balen.
wife and daughter, were drowned. They
lost the road aud the team passed so near a
large air hole that the ice broke and the
animals and people were lost
By the explosion of an old boiler on the
farm OF the Harlow brothers near Sey-
mour, Ind, the other day, Henry and
William Harlow were killed instantly
OVER one hundred deaths from diphtheris
were reported in and about Catlin, Ill, last
week. The schools of the county have been
closed.
THE Vulcan mills at South st. Louis have
been ordered closed. due. it was alleged. to
President Cleveland's message.
The twelfth annual meeting Of the Freed
mems Aid Advisory Society was held in
Chicago on the 18th. The expenses were
Sls3,0O0 last year.
Two Cinnamon were convicted Of MUIR
der in the first degree in Portland, Ore, on
the 18th.
THE Ohio State Grange was in session at
Canton recently. Among the resolutions
adopted was one opposing the placing of
raw materials on the free list protesting
against any further reduction in the wool
tariff and demanding the restoration of the
tarlff of 1867.
CONERRSSNlN WAIVED ~ Karsoa (.it,-
has been appointed by Commander-in-C Chief
Rea, OF the Grand Army. as a member OF
the committee 10 secure an appropriate
memorial for John A. Logan.
FEARS are entertained at Two Rivers,
Wis, OF the loss Of the small fishing tug
Edith and her crew of six men.
A COLLISION occurred at 4 crossing at Fos-
toria, o., the other night between a freight
and passenger train, but not passenger
or train man was hurt.
CHARLES BELLOWS was hanged at Charles
City, Iowa, on the 10Th for the murder of
his niece, Alice Waterman. in July, 1886
This was the first legal execution in Iowa
since 1855.
MAJOR WILLIAM SINS, secretary OF the
Kansas State Board of Agriculture, has
concluded to resign January IL.
WILLIAM TREMAINE, of Stonewall, Col,
mistook the fur cap of q young man named
Thompson for a deer head recently and
shot and killed him.
JAMES ROBINSON, concerned in the muir.
der of Detective Hulligan, was convicted at
Raveuna, o. ''BliDkey'' Morgan and John
COughliu, the other two concerned, have
also been convicted and sentenced to death.
THE five dead Anarchists were inferred
at Wadhelm Cemetery, Chicago, on the
18th. The ceremonies passed of quietly.
THREE men were killed by an explosion
in the No. mine of the Missouri Pacific
at Fleming, Kan, on the nth
Hon. s. z. ROUNDS, editor and principal
proprietor of the Omaha Republican, died at
Omaha on the 18th of pneumonia after an
illness OF ten days Mr.. Rounds was well
known as the Public Printer at Washington
and for number OF years published the
Printers Cabinet at Chicago.